Save the Date: Author Mónica Guzmán to Speak January 5 on Curious Conversations During Divided Times
Many of us find it difficult to communicate with those who do not share our values and ideas. Mónica Guzmán, author of the recently published book, Never Thought of It This Way: How to Have Fearless, Inquisitive Conversations in Dangerously Divided Timescomes to Edmonds on January 5, 2023 for a community conversation to find common ground.
The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Edmonds Waterfront Center, 220 Railroad Ave., Edmonds. Tickets are free and available through EventBrite here.
“Finding Common Ground During Dangerously Divided Times: A Community Conversation with Mónica Guzmán” is brought to you by the My Neighborhood News Network family of publications — Lynnwood today, MLT news and My Edmonds news — in partnership with the Edmonds Waterfront Center, the Edmonds Bookstore and the Vida Agency.
“As someone who appreciates the importance of civil discourse and the role it plays in our democracy, I am proud to bring Mónica Guzmán to Edmonds for this event,” said Teresa Wippel, Founder and Publisher of My Neighborhood. News Network. “Mónica’s book is a thoughtful guide for anyone striving to have meaningful conversations with friends, family, neighbors and co-workers, even – and especially – when we disagree.”
Guzmán is a bridge builder, journalist, and author who lives for great conversations sparked by curious questions. His new book was featured on the Glenn Beck Podcast and named New York Times recommended reading. She is a Senior Fellow for Public Practice at Braver Angels, the nation’s largest grassroots cross-partisan organization working to depolarize America; founder and CEO of Reclaim Curiosity, an organization working to build a more curious world; host of a series of live interviews on cross section; and co-founder of Seattle’s award-winning newsletter L’Evergrey.
In addition, she was a 2019 Fellow at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, where she studied social and political division, and a 2016 Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, where she studied how journalists can rethink their role to better meet each other. to the needs of a participatory audience. She’s been named one of Seattle’s 50 Most Powerful Women, twice been a Pulitzer Prize juror, and plays a barbarian named Shadrack in her Best Friends Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
A Mexican immigrant, Latina and dual Mexican-American citizen, she lives in Seattle with her husband and two children and is the proud liberal daughter of conservative parents.
His book will be on sale at Edmonds Bookstore during the event.
